> Nobody knows yet the true capabilities of the missile, but it doesn’t matter. The accuracy doesn’t matter very much, the payload doesn’t matter very much. If it’s launched at a certain target in Tel Aviv, it still is going to hit something in Tel Aviv. The Israelis have no choice but to attempt an intercept, and will spend millions to do so

Sounds like the massive price disparity more than makes up for any accuracy issues

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bluGill 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

iron dome is about $100k to intercept according to wikipedia. Millions is off by an order of magnatude. I suspect they can make it cheaper with scale as well.

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bigyabai 19 hours ago | parent [-]

$100k is the cost of the low-speed ~mach 2.2 Tamir interceptor, which is effective against shells and rockets but not going to intercept a maneuvering mach 7 glide body.

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XorNot 19 hours ago | parent [-]

There is absolutely no way anyone is producing a manoeuvring mach 7 missile for $100,000 though.

The term "hypersonic" is incredibly overloaded.

	▲	bigyabai 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, I agree with that. I've not seen a booster stack at that price hit mach 4-5 reliably, mach 7 would be unprecedented. Still important to clarify that HGVs are intended to defeat these cheaper intercept layers.

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irishcoffee 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Clearly accuracy does matter. I just tried to throw a rock from my back yard to Tel Aviv, I missed terribly.